Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
Other two construction texts are made by Lḥyʿṯt S¹ṭrn kbr Fys²n: MṢM 3636 and RES 3913. |
English | |
1 Lḥyʿṯt S¹ṭrn, kbr of Fys²n, built and 2 founded and completed the four dam walls of the sluice 3 of his palmgrove ʿbṯr. By ʿṯtr and ʾlmqh. |
2 | klwtn mẓkkt: "sustaining walls [which are] the enclosures" (A. Jamme 1976). |
Jamme 1976: 2-3 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1976. Carnegie Museum 1974-75 Yemen Expedition. (Special Publication, 2). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 23, w. 80 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maʾrib |
Ancient site | Mryb / Mrb |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
Notes | Reemployed upside down as the lintel of the southern front door of a modern house. |
Link to site record |
Fakhry 1952: i, 104, n. 109, fig. 48 | Fakhry, Ahmed 1952. An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). (3 vols), Cairo: Government Press. |
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952: ii, 35 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952. Epigraphical texts. Ahmed Fakhry, An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). ii. Cairo: Government Press. |
Jamme 1976: 2-3 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1976. Carnegie Museum 1974-75 Yemen Expedition. (Special Publication, 2). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. |
Schmidt 1987: 141, pl. 20/f | Schmidt, Jürgen 1987. Antiken aus dem Stadtgebiet von Mārib. Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 4: 131-142. |